Here are the thoughts and images of one who aims humbly for that one treasure known as Enlightenment, Moksha, Nirvana, or The Kingdom of Heaven. I share with the reader the little insight and experience I am given on this quest of Love. I will have nothing new to say, but the way I express it will be genuine and honest. If a single phrase or painting come to be helpful to others, this whole mess will be worth the while.
Well met, traveller.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Existence Exists

There is one fact that simply can't
sink deep enough into our understanding, and that is the two word
headline of this post: existence exists. We tend to take it
for granted 99,9% of the time, and yet we have not even come close to
fathom its significance. Pondering this one fact alone can lead to a
great awakening.

Reality, that which IS, might not have
been at all, and if it had it could have been something else entirely
– something gray, dull, mechanical, and flat. If possible, try to
see this not from the perspective through which you survey and judge
the objects of existence, but from outside of it. I ask you to look
at existence itself – at its inevitable and miraculous being. Yes,
here. Take a small step outside of yourself and behold it directly.
This is what IS. There is no other story. There is no other reality.
This is how IS-ness IS, and it actually and fully IS.

Stay, if you may and like, with this
one fact for a couple of days. Exclude to the level you can all other
worries, questions, considerations etc. Meditate upon being
Existence. Ponder the nature of Existence, not its physical nature,
possible illusory aspect, or any detail of it at all. Look at
existence itself. It is.

I repeat the same thing over and over
because it is very likely that you do not see what it means. Existence
exists. In the mind existence is treated like an object like any
other, but existence/reality isn't an object. It is what IS. We
therefore have to let the fact sink in deeply. This is how it looks,
smells, tastes, feels, and sounds right now. Yes, it does look,
smell, taste, feel and sound. We know it, but we normally do not
grasp it. We have to detach ourselves from the “inside of
existence” perspective through which we typically perceive the
world, and behold existence as existence.

Let us taste the full impact of these
two words, and keep doing so. Until we laugh out loud and long at
what they say, we have not managed to comprehend their fullness. We
have not fully seen that...